[cayugabirds-l] more night migrants
Quite a bit of birds are still moving overhead tonight. In 30 minutes beginning at 11:30, I counted 44 Swainson's Thrushees and 6 Gray-Cheekd Thrushrs over my hose in Northeast Ithaca. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Highlights around Cayuga Basin Today 5/29/12
Here is small sample of photos from today. Now back to some "foraging"... http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/sets/72157629959515410/ From: david nicosia To: Cayugabirds- L ; Bluewing Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 4:52 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Highlights around Cayuga Basin Today 5/29/12 Got some birding in with Dan Watkins and Capt. Mike Ackeley before storms. Myer's Point- 2 singing ORCHARD ORIOLES. 1 female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER hanging around with a male and female common merganser. Lake Road- 2 singing GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS as others have had. Montezuma Wildlife Drive- 1 SNOW GOOSE sitting on a nest mound with a CANADA GOOSE!! There was also another CANADA GOOSE nearby did this snow goose breed with the canada? The bird was opposite to Larue's/Lesser Yellowlegs unit on a mound fairly close to road. New Shorebird Flats- 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS at least. also other more common ones. Benning Marsh- star of the day: HUDSONIAN GODWIT putting on a show for 3 carloads of birders foraging fairly close to road. wow. also 2-3 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS among common ones. Towpath Road- had all 4 WILSON'S PHALAROPES again. 2 male and 2 female. Also 3 SANDERLINGS. many other common ones that others have seen...dunlin, semipalmated sandpipers/plovers. black-bellied plovers etc. No HUGO here today. I also had a bird that I thought was a candidate for a BAIRD'S. The bird was a little bigger and light brown vs the more grayish WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS of which there were a couple there. This guy was not a pectoral did not have breast pattern of a pec. I wasn't sure...and it was fairly distant (60x in scope). So I did not list it on e-bird. But others should watch for this guy. Someone reported one here last week. Armitage Road- 2 PROTHONTARY WARBLERS singing. One seen very close. wow. King road- same CLAY-COLORED SPARROW singing from top of the farthest spruce tree from the road. Totaled 106 species which was Capt. Mike's first 100+ day. Plus got great looks at a lot of awesome birds. Then the storms hit Dave Nicosia Johnson City, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Highlights around Cayuga Basin Today 5/29/12
Ha Ha, this sentence fragment might appear in those jokes about improperly constructed sentences! Thanks, Dave! Benning Marsh- star of the day: HUDSONIAN GODWIT putting on a show for 3 carloads of birders foraging fairly close to road. wow. also 2-3 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS among common ones. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Highlights around Cayuga Basin Today 5/29/12
Got some birding in with Dan Watkins and Capt. Mike Ackeley before storms. Myer's Point- 2 singing ORCHARD ORIOLES. 1 female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER hanging around with a male and female common merganser. Lake Road- 2 singing GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS as others have had. Montezuma Wildlife Drive- 1 SNOW GOOSE sitting on a nest mound with a CANADA GOOSE!! There was also another CANADA GOOSE nearby did this snow goose breed with the canada? The bird was opposite to Larue's/Lesser Yellowlegs unit on a mound fairly close to road. New Shorebird Flats- 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS at least. also other more common ones. Benning Marsh- star of the day: HUDSONIAN GODWIT putting on a show for 3 carloads of birders foraging fairly close to road. wow. also 2-3 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS among common ones. Towpath Road- had all 4 WILSON'S PHALAROPES again. 2 male and 2 female. Also 3 SANDERLINGS. many other common ones that others have seen...dunlin, semipalmated sandpipers/plovers. black-bellied plovers etc. No HUGO here today. I also had a bird that I thought was a candidate for a BAIRD'S. The bird was a little bigger and light brown vs the more grayish WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS of which there were a couple there. This guy was not a pectoral did not have breast pattern of a pec. I wasn't sure...and it was fairly distant (60x in scope). So I did not list it on e-bird. But others should watch for this guy. Someone reported one here last week. Armitage Road- 2 PROTHONTARY WARBLERS singing. One seen very close. wow. King road- same CLAY-COLORED SPARROW singing from top of the farthest spruce tree from the road. Totaled 106 species which was Capt. Mike's first 100+ day. Plus got great looks at a lot of awesome birds. Then the storms hit Dave Nicosia Johnson City, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Shorebirds continue Puddlers Marsh
Including 4 WILSONs PHALAROPE. Lots of DUNLIN and other common shorebirds. Did have 3 SANDERLING. No RUTU or knots. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Myers Point this AM -- Horned Grebe
I spent about an hour and a half at Myers Point this morning starting about 5:45. The biggest highlight was provided by a HORNED GREBE. This would have been amazing enough given the bird's stunning breeding plumage, and that it apparently furnishes the latest spring record for Tompkins County in eBird. But the biggest highlight was that the bird was incredibly close! Usually my photos of rarities at Myers leave a bit to be desired, but I was pretty happy with the Horned Grebe. Amazingly, the bird was calling for much of the time (a new vocalization for me in the Cayuga Lake Basin). It flew off about 5 minutes before Stuart arrived when a couple of swimmers flushed it. Other highlights included a single flyby SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, a distant COMMON LOON, a single AMERICAN BLACK DUCK and singing Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos. I also recorded my 200th species for Myers Point -- a GREAT HORNED OWL that was calling to the north. I also heard a CERULEAN WARBLER along Salmon Creek near the large green bridge on Salmon Creek Road that crosses the creek on the north side of Ludlowville. This is the first Cerulean I have had along Salmon Creek in quite some time. Photos of the grebe here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinicola/7295253636/in/photostream/ The video isn't all that great, in part because I turned of the stabilizer to record audio. Still, it's kind of neat to hear! https://vimeo.com/43043180 Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma cygnets, etc.
We visited Montezuma on Saturday. There was a trumpeter swan family with five cygnets (along the road, just south of the interstate). The northeast end of the main pond had Wilson's phalarope, semipalmated plovers and sandpipers, pectoral sandpipers, dunlin, green-winged teal, gadwall, and others, and a Willow Flycatcher was loudly claiming the area near the observation platform just north of the interstate. -- Dr. David Campbell Collections Assistant The Paleontological Research Institution 1259 Trumansburg Road Ithaca NY 14850 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hudsonian Godwit Bennings Marsh
Still present as of 1115 am. Other shorebirds too including 2 white rumps. Close to road again putting on a show. Dave Nicosia. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] FYI: Hudsonian Godwit and Yellow-throated Warblers were present as of yesterday
Hello all, Yesterday till late evening (6.00 PM) Hudsonian Godwit was in the Benning Marsh feeding and resting. Around 6.00PM after feeding long enough in the marsh, flew into the grass at the back of the Benning's close to I-90 and was preening and not easily visible if you did not know the location. So if someone is checking for it today make sure you scan. Yellow-throated warbler as of yesterday afternoon was (only one) there singing its heart out on one of the sycamores closer to TCAT bus garage, a few hundred meters south of tee 3. So he moves a whole lot. First we went there at 5.45 am and we did not hear him, though we spent about half an hour here. We came back around 11.45 am after a few minutes we heard him singing and then located him in the sycamores. It seems it is a good idea to look for him in sycamores! Meena -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Sandhill Crane
At 6:45 this morning in the field across from 218 Bundy Road there was one sandhill crane. It was still there about 10 minutes later when I returned to the same spot on my walk. I walk in this area frequently, and have never seen one here before. Marsha Kardon -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
